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Whistle While You Foil--or not?

 
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eric

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PostWed Dec 02, 20 5:23 pm    Whistle While You Foil--or not? Reply with quote

My first front wing whistler. It's bad, like "Is it Safe?" from Marathon Man bad, like nails on the chalkboard bad. Put a new from wing on--only change--and it's train whistle on.

To date, I tried a subtle "Donaldson Curve" but it had no effect. Anyone dealt with this successfully? Anyone gone from REALLY LOUD on ALL points of sail at pretty much every speed to silence?

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PostThu Dec 03, 20 11:07 am     Reply with quote

We have a number of Foils surf and classic series from Lift that sang to us. Specific to Lift, but applicable to almost carbon setups that sing. Nick put out a simple video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYRKr04fqbI

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PostThu Dec 03, 20 3:10 pm     Reply with quote

^^^

Perfect, much obliged

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PostFri Dec 04, 20 9:29 am     Reply with quote

That's a good video, but it's better if you know what you're shooting for. Look at this figure, it's a table of the results of several studies into the subject. In the video, Nick is going for the bottom shape in column two, a very quiet leading edge. However, angle is critical and must be 30 degrees. Go up about six shapes in that column to see what happens if you end up with a 45 degree angle. BTW, that's total angle of the edge, not sanding angle. to get 30 degrees, you'll have to sand at a 15 degree angle top and bottom. Sand at 22 degrees and you'll still be whistling.

Of course this tailing edge is exceptionally sharp and dangerous. You can blunt it by sanding a 90 degree blunt edge no more then 1.5mm wide. You have to use a very rigid sanding block and get it right at perpendicular to the wing. If you go thicker than 1.5mm you'll get whistling.

I personally sand to get the trailing edge shape in column one, second from the bottom. I put a 1mm blunt edge on it as well. This is just as quiet as the videos trailing edge, and far safer. It's also a lot more forgiving of sanding angle. Any angle between 60 degrees and 90 degrees works. The only difficult part is getting the radius, and thta's not so bad. I just sand without a block to get the radius and check my work with 18x magnifying glasses.


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